BoatBanter.com - Talking Turkey...

Ok,.

I wonder where THIS phrase came from...?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CViu-eRiP...elated&search=

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
The history of "talk turkey" is obscure, and there are quite a few
stories out there that try to explain it, but probably none of them is
entirely correct. If someone says he wants to "talk turkey," he means
he wants to have a direct conversation about what really matters. The
most popular story about how this phrase entered the English language
centers on hunting in America during the nineteenth century.

Supposedly, Americans would sometimes work with native (American
Indian) hunting companions, and at the end of the day the two hunters
would divide the birds they had killed. The American would take the
turkeys and offer the Native American the other birds (various stories
suggest that these were crows or buzzards).

The Native Americans would sometimes complain that their hunting
companions would always take the better birds but "never talk turkey"
for the Native Americans." In other words, if the Americans had been
fair-if they had "talked turkey"-they would have taken the other birds
some of the time. As with many such stories, this probably has a grain
of truth to it, but people added to it over time.

So there you have it.